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Quartermaster  General's  Office, 

Richmond,  April  1,  1864. 


The  following  Extracts  from  General  Orders  issued  from  the  office  of 
the  Adjutant  and  [nspcctor  General,  during  the  first  quarter  of  the  cur- 
rent year  (1864),  relate  to  quartermasters'  duties,  and  the  same  are  pub 
lished  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  the  officers  of  this  department. 


General  Orders,  No.  I,  January  4,  18GI 

I.  If,  immediately  after  the  cfcath  of  an  officer,  there*  be  no  family  con 
uexion  or  legal  representative  present,  to  -whom  the  officer,  charged  by 
the  94th  Article  of  War  with  securing  his  effects,  may  deliver  them,  he 
will  turn  them  over,  under  the  provisions  of  paragraph  III,  General  Or- 
ders, No.  67  (1863), *  to  the  quartermaster  of  the  reg-  >'Ost,  tm 
the  circumstances  may  indicate  to  be  proper. 

II.  Surgeons  or  assistant  surgeons  in  charge  of  hospital,^  will,  upon 
the  death  of  a  soldier  in  hospital,  furnish  the  Second  Auditor  of  the 
Treasury  a  statement  from  their  rolls,  showing  the  last  payment  preceding 
his  death,  made. to  such  soldier. 


General  Orders,  No.  10,  January  30,  1864. 

The  authority  given  in  General  Orders,  No.  85,  series  of  1863,  to  im- 
press iron,  is  extended  to  the  impressment  of  ore,  timber,  and  all  materials 
essential  to  the  production  and  manufactuie  of  iron. 

*III.  Surgeons  will  turn  over  money  or  other  effects  of  deceased  soldiers  (except 
clothing,  which  will  be  disposed  of  as  directed  by  General  Orders,  No.  49,  1863),  to 
the  quartermaster  of  the  regiment  to  which  the  soldier  belonged,  if  he  died  in  the 
field,  or  to  the  quartermaster  of  the  post,  if  he  died  in  hospital,  taking  therefor 
receipts  in  duplicate — one  of  which  will  be  forwarded  by  him  to  the  commanding 
officer  of  the  company  of  which  the  soldier  was  a  member,  te  be  sent  by  him  to  the 
family  of  the  deceased;  and  the  other  to  the  Second  Auditor  of  the  Treasury. 
Quartermasters  will  take  up,  upon  their  quarterly  returns,  money  thus  paid,  speci- 
fying the  amount  left  by  each  deceased  soldier,  his  name,  company  and  regiment. 


General  Orders,  No.  13,  February  3,  1864. 

I.  In  the  event  of  the  foss  of  company  records,  and  the  consequent 

inability  of  the  commanding  officers  to  certify,  therefrom,  the  clothing 
accounts  of  soldiers,  said  account!  may  he  stated  from  memory,  provided 
such  statements  are  supported  by  the  affidavits  of  the  soldiers  interested. 

II.  When,  from  the  casualties  of  war,  companies  have  been  entirely 
deprived  of  their  officers,  in  the  adjustment  of  clothing  accounts,  the 
affidavit  of  the  soldier,  together  with  those  of  two  of  his  comrades,  will 

emed  sufficient  evidence  to  authorize  a  settlement  with  him,  if  the 
statement  shall  he  approved  by  the  regimental  commander. 

III.  Hereafter  the  articles  of  clothing  issued  during  the  year  will  be 
stated  opposite  the  name  of  each  soldier,  upon  the  muster  roll  of  his  com- 
pany, at  the  annual  settlement  directed  in  General  Orders,  No.  100,  A.  & 
•I.  G.  O.,  Dec.  8,  1862. 

IV.  The  attention  of  company  commanders  is  called  to  the  require- 
ments of  the  above  quoted  General  Orders.  By  failing  to  account  for 
clothing  received  by  them  for  issue  to  their  men,  they  render  themselves 
liable  to  be  charged  with  its  value,  and  a  stoppage  of  their  pay  to  the 
amount. 

V.  Frpm  and  after  the  1st  of  February  1864,  instead  of  supplying 
company  commanders  with  clothing  for  their  men,  officers  of  the  Quar- 
termaster's Department  will  issue  to  the  soldier,  upon  the  requisition  of 
ins  immediate  commanding  officer. 

*Vf.  In  making  payments  to  soldiers  upon  descriptive  lists,  officers  of 
the  Quartermaster's  Department  will  be  careful  to  endorse  thereon  the 
amounts  paid,  and  the  time  for  which  they  have  been  paid;  returning  the 
same  to  them  for  delivery  to  their  company  commanders,  and  filing  with 
their  accounts  a  certified  copy  therflaf. 


Oeneral  Orders,  No.  15,  February  5,  ]864. 

.  II.  Supplies  of  provisions,  in  transitu  to  arsenals,  armories  and  ord- 
nance depots,  for  the  use  of  operatives,  under  the  order  of  commanding 
officers  of  the  same,  will  not  he  interfered  with  by  officers  of  the  depart- 
ments. 

III.  As  the  various  rail  roads  of  the  Confederacy  for  the  transportation 
of  troops,  supplies  and  munitions  of  war,  are  under  the  control  of  the 

*  Amended.     See  General  Orders,  Nos.  28  and  35,  post, 


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Quartermaster's  Department,  the  orders  of  Commanding  Generals  and 
other  officers  relating  to  such  transportation  by  rail  road,  will  be  imme- 
diately furnished  Co  the  Quartermaster  General,  in  order  that  arrange- 
ments may  be  made  in  time  to  harmonize  the  various  routes,  so  as  to 
prevent  accident  and  delays. 


General  Orders/No.  17,  February  8.  1864. 

II.  Paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  '.'7  (series  1862),  is  amended 
thus : 

Officers  and  agents  of  the  Quartermaster's  Department  are  hereby  or- 
dered not  r<>  interfere  with  leather  orhides  purchased  or  contracted  for  by 
officers  or'agents  of  the  Ordnance  Department. 


General  <  >rd<  rs,  No.  20,  February  12,  1864. 

The  first  paragraph  Gr.  O.  138  (£863)  is  modified  by  the  omission  of 
the  words  "in  states  in  which  provisions  have  not  been  made  on  this 
subject"  (impressment  of  slaves):*  and  clause  7  of  the  same  order  is  sc 
far  modified  as  to  allow  the  rat"  of  compensation  for  slaves  impressed 
under  the  act  of  26th  March  )863,  to  be  established  by  appraisers  ap- 
pointed under  that  act:  provided  the  price  thus  fixed  does  hot  exceed 
the  sum  prescribed  by  the  law  of  the  state  in  which  such  Blaves  are 
impressed. 


General  Orders,  tfo.  22,  February  23,  1864. 

I.  Clause  3,  paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  75  (1863),f  is  amende-! 
by  adding  after  the  words  "  as  clerks"  the  words  "  or  detailed  men." 

III.  Non-commissioned  officers,  musicians  and  privates  detached  from 
their  commands,  by  furlough  or  detail,  for  a  longer  period  than  thirty 
days,  will  be  furnished  by  company  commanders  with  but  one  descrip- 
tive list,  upon  which  the  soldier's   account  with  the  government  fpay, 

*To  labor  on  fortifications  and  other  public  works 

till.  The  rate  of  allowance  to  men  serving  in  the  field  as  clerks  at  head  .quarter.-, 
or  on  duty  in  the  Quartermaster's,  Ordnance,  Engineer,  Commissary,  or  Medical 
Mining  and  Nitre  Departments,  will  be  established  at  such  sums  per  diem  as  may 
be  recommended  by  the  officer  i-i  charge  of  such  men,  and  approved  by  the  Com- 
manding General.  These  rates  "Mil  not  exceed  $1.25  per  diem,  except  in  special 
f  service  in  the  departments  above  mentioned,  when  a  greater  rate  may  b<> 
authorized  by  the  Chiwi's  of  Bureaux,  upon  the  approval  of  the  Commanding 
Greueral, 


clothing  and  commutation  for  furlough,  under  the  Act  of  Congress,  Feb- 
ruary 7th,  1863),  will  be  stated.  Soldiers  in  hospitals,  not  furnished  with 
descriptive  lists  by  company  commanders  when  furloughed,  will  have 
such  lists  provided  by  the  surgeon  in  charge. 

Payments  made  will  be  endorsed  on  the  descriptive  lists,*  which  will  be 
returned  to  the  soldier,  ami  transportation  furnished  in  kind  under  the 
act  cited  will  be  endorsed  on  the  descriptive  list  and  also  on  the  furlough. 

When  the  soldier  rejoins  his  command,  the  descriptive  list  will  be  re- 
turned to  the.  company  commafidef,  who  will,  after  recording  the  pay- 
ments made,  destroy  it. 

Quartermasters  are  prohibited  from  paying  soldiers  absent,  as  set  forth 
in  this  Order,  from  their  commands,  except  in  the  mauner  herein  ordered. 

IV.  Persons  not  liable  to  conscription  who  may  wish  to  volunteer 
may  be  enrolled  as  volunteers,  and  receive  transportation  to  the  company 
fibey  select  The  enrollment  will  be  communicated  by  the  enrolling  offi- 
cer in  each  instance  to  the  company  commander. 

V.  Soldiers  who  furnish  an  able-bodied  recruit,  who  is  mustered  into 
service  under  the  provisions' of  the  preceding  paragraph,  are  entitled, 
when  on  furlough,  to  traiffcportation  homeland  back 

VI.  The  provisions  of  paragraph  V,  General  Orders,  No.  31  (1863),! 
arc  held  to. apply  to  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates  entitled  to 
furlough  under  Act  of  Congress  approved  February  7th,   1863.      Re- 

*  See  also  Gteneral  Orders,  No.  :3o,  paragraph  VI,  and  paragraphs  XII,  XIII,  XIV 

and  XV  of  General  Orders,  No.  42,  dated  April  14,  1864,  as  follows : 

XII.  Officers  to  whom  soldiers  on  detached  or  detailed  dllty  report,  will  take  pos- 

r  descriptive  lists,  and,  in  accordance  with  instructions  thereon  given, 
will  prepare  and  certify  to  the  muster  rolls,  upon  winch  they  receive  the  pay  due. 
then*  PjyrmentH  will  be  made  such  soldiers,  when  in  the  held,  at  the  end  of  every 
two  months;  when  at  posts,  at  the  end  of  each  month.  Upon  these  rolls  annual 
settlements  of  clothing  accounts  may  be  made  with  soldiers  on  detailed  duty  at 
posts. 

XIII.  To  prevent  their  detention  on  their  way  home,  soldiers  leaving  tbe  army  on 
furlough  of  indulgence  will,  instead  of  being  furnished  with  descriptise  lists,  he  paid 
at  their  commands  up  to  the  close  of  the  month  preceding  Ihe  dates  of  their  fur- 
loughs, upon  detached  rolls,  signed  by  their  company  commanders. 

XIV.  Hick  or  wounded  men  Bent  to  hospitals  will  be  paid  as  heretofore,  upon 
hospital  muster  and  pay  rolls.  Those  who,  on  account  of  wounds  or  ill  health,  are 
permitted  to  go  to  their  homes,  may  be  paid  upon  descriptive  lists,  by  the.  nearest 
quartermaster  or  assistant  quartermaster. 

XV.  When  soldiers  are  ordered  to  rejoin  their  commands,  officers  with  whom 
they  %ave  been  on  duty,  surgeons  in  charge  of  hospitals   of  which    th< 

inmates,  and  quartermasters  and  assistant,  quartermasters  paying^hose  sick  and 
wounded  at  home,  will  (after  carefully  noting  upon  their  descriptive  list.:  payments 
rffnde  to  them)  return  such  Boldiers  their  descriptive  Lists,  to  he  delivered  to  their 
company  commander,  and  will  also  transmit,  throu  ral  commanding  the 

army  to  which  they  belong,  dupli  same  to  the  latter. 

tV.  When  non-commissioned  officers,  musicians  or  privates  entitled  under  either 
of  the  preceding  acts  to  a  furlough,  shall  have  been,  or  may  hereafter  be  promoted 
to  the  rank  o€  commissioned  officers,  prior  to  the  receipt  thereof,  they  shall  be 
allowed  the  same  commutation  as  is  provided  in  the  previous  paragraph,  or  when 
they  go  on  leave,  the  transportation  in  kind-,  at  their  option. 


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elected  officers  are  not  allowed  transportation,  or  commutation  in  Hon 
thereof,  under  any  of  the  acts  providing  furloughs,,  bounty  and  transpor- 
tation to  persons  re-enliste^  or  mustered  into  the  service. 

In  each  case,  the  commutation  allowed  in  lieu  of  furlough  will  be  paid 
by  the  quartermaster  of  the  command  to  which  the  soldier  belongs,  and 
by  no  other  quartermaster 

VII.  Chaplains  may  receive  the  rations  in  kind  allowed  them  b}  law, 
or  commute  them  at  the  govern n 

VIII.  The  following  is  published  for  the  information  of  the  army  : 

An  Jet  to  provide  for  Retiring  Officers  of  the  Army. 

The.  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  Thai  the 
President  be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized,  upon  the  recommendation  0/ 
any  General  commanding  a  department  or  any  army,  to  diseharp 
service  any  officer  of  the  Confederate  States  Army,  or  of  the  Provisional 
Army  of  the  Confederate  States,  who  has  no  command,  and  cannot  be 
assigned  to  any  appropriate  duty,  or  who  is  incompetent  or  inefhei 
who  may  be  absent  from  his  command  or  duty  without  leave:  pr< 
that  ariy  officer  who  may  be  discharged  for  incompetency.  iueffiei- 
absence  from  his  command  or  duty  without  leave,  shall  be  entitled  to  a 
trial  before  an  examining  board,  under  existing  laws,  if  he  demands  it  of 
the  Commandftg  General  within  thirty  days:  provided  further,  that  it 
shall  not  extend  to  any  officer  who  is  absent  on  account  of  his  captivity. 
[  Approved  February  37,  1  86  1 .  ] 

IX.  All  officers,  wh<  nlar  or  Provisional  Army,  absent  from 
their  commands  and  not  on  duty,  as  well  ;-~   those  whd  are  without  as- 
signment to  doty  by  competent  authority,  will  report  their  addn 
letter  to  this  office,  stating  the  circumstances  of  their  absence  from  duty. 
and  if  unaseigned,  when  and  wheie  last  on  duty. 


at  ral  Orders,  No.  26,  March  1,  \i 

Quartermaster  General's  Office, 

Richmond,  March  5,  1864. 

The  immediate  attention  of  officers  of  this  department  is  called  to  the 
following  extracts  from  General  Orders  Recently  published: 

The  following  Act  of  Congress  and  E  published  for  'he 

information  and  guidance  of  all  concerned : 


*  An  Act  to  Organize  Forces  to  serve  during  the   War. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  from 
and  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  all  white  men,  residents  of  the  Con- 
federate States,  between  the  ages  of  seventeen  and  fifty,  shall  be  in  the 
military  service  of  the  Confederate  States  for  the  war. 

SEC.  4.  That  no  person  shall  be  relieved  from  the  operation  of  this  act 
by  reason  of  having  been  heretofore  discharged  from  the*  army,  where  no 
disability  new  exists,  nor  shall  those  who  have  furnished  substitutes  be 
any  longer  exempted  by  reason  thereof. 

.  8.  That  hereafter  the  duties  of  provost  and  hospital  guards  and 
clerks,  of  clerks,  guards,  agents,  employees,  or  laborers  in  the  commis- 
sary's and  quartermaster's  departments,  in  the  ordnance  department,  and 
elerks  and  employees  of  navy  agents,  as  also  in  the  execution  of  the 
enrollment  acts,  and  all  similar* duties,  shall  be  performed  by  persons 
who  are  within  the  ages  of  eighteen  and  forty-five  years,  and  who,,  by 
the  report  of  a  board  of  army  surgeons,  shall  be  reported  as  unable  to 
perform  active  service  in  the  field,  but  capable  of  performing  some  of  the 
above  mentioned  duties,  specifying  which;  and  when  those  persons  shall 
have  been  assigned  to  those  duties  as  far  as  practicable,  the  President 
shall  detail  or  assign  to  their  performances  such  bodies  of  troops  or  indi- 
viduals, required  to  be  enrolled  under  the  fifth  section  of  #iis  act,  as  may 
be  needed  for  the  discharge  of  such  duties  :  provided,  that  persons  be- 
tween the  ages  of  seventeen  aud  eighteen  shall  not  be  assigned  to  these 
duties :  provided  further,  that  nothing  contained  in  this  act  shall  be  so 
construed  as  to  prevent  the  President  from  detailing  artisans,  mechanics 
•  >r  persons  of  scientific  skill  to  perform  indispensable  duties  in  the  depart- 
ments or  bureau::  herein  mentioned. 

Sec.  p.  That  any  quartermaster  or  assistant  quartermaster,  commissary 
or  assistant  commissary  (other  tljan  'those  serving  with  regiments  or 
brigades  in  the  field),  or  officer  in  the  ordnance  bureau,  or  navy  agent, or 
provost  marshal,  or  officer  in  the  conscript  service,  who  shall  hereafter 
employ  or  retain  in  his  employment  any  person  in  any  of  their  said  de- 
partments or  bureaux,  or  in  any  of  the  duties  mentioned  in  the  eighth 
section  of  this  act.  in  violation  of  the  provisions  hereof,  shall,  on' convic- 
tion thereof,  by  a  court  martial  or  military  court,  be  cashiered:  and  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  any  department  or  district  commander,  upon  proof 
by  the  oath  of  any  credible  person,  that  any  sueh  officer  has  violated 
this  provision,  immediately  to  relieve  such  officer  from  duty  ?  and  said 
commander  shall  take  prompt  measures  to  have  him  tried  for  such  offence; 


and  any  commander  as  aforesaid  failing  to  perform  the  duties  enjoined  by 
this  section,  shall,  upon  being  duly  convicted  thereof,  be  dismissed  from 
the  service. 

*.******;,  # 

Sec.  11.  Provided,  that  the  po>|er  herein  granted  to  the  President  to 
make  details  and  exemptions  shall  not  be  construed  to  authorize  the  ex- 
emption or  detail  of  any  contractor  for  furnishing  supplies  of  any  kind 
to  the,  government,  by  reason  of  said  contract,  unless  the  head  or  secre- 
tary of  the  department  making  such  contracts,  shall  certify  that  the  per- 
sonal services  of  said  contractor  are  indispensable  to  the  execution  of  the 
contract:  provided  farther,  that  when  any  such  contractor  shall  fail  dili. 
gently  and  faithfully  to  proceed  with  the  execution  of  such  contract,  his 
sxemption  or  detail  shall  cease.     [Approved  February  17th.  18ft.] 

VI.  The  attention  of  all  officers  of  the  government,  and  especially  of 
those  belonging  to  the  military  department  mentioned  therein,  is  di- 
rected to  the  language  and  purport  of  the  8th  .-•  Ction  of  the  act  of  con- 
gress above  recited.  Congress  has  manifested .  in  various  enactments, 
the  policy  to  withdraw  from  the  civil  service  all  persons  capable  of  per- 
forming duty  in  the  field,  and  this  section  of  the  act  is  an  emphatic  de- 
claration of  that  intention,  accompanied  with  a  severe  penalty  to  be 
imposed  upon  the  officer  who  may  frustrate  it.  The  Bureau  of  Conscrip- 
tion will  proceed  to  enroll  for  duty  all  persons  who  may  be  so  employed. 
But,  to  prevent  the'inconvenience  ,MI,i  disorder  that  would  follow  from 
the  instantaneous  execution  of  the  law,  details  may  foe  granted  until  the 
10th  day  of  April  next,  for  such  of  those  persons  as  the  head  of  any  de- 
partment, or  the  chief  of  any  bureau,  or  the  principal  officer  of  the  same 
in  any  state,  shall  certify  to  be  necessary  for  that' time  to  carry  on  the 
business  in  which  they  are  employed.  In  the  mean  time,  it  is  made  the 
duty  of  the  officers  controlling  this  class  of  persons,  to  substitute.,  as  far 
as  practicable,  persons  who  are  designated  in  this  act  as  proper  to  fill 
such  emploflnents  for  those  that  are  made  liable  to  service  by  the  act. 

VII.  Conscripts  unfit  for  duty  in  the  field,  but  capable  of  performing 
other  duties  named  in  the  8th  section  of  the  act  recited,  will  be  received 
and  recommended  accordingly  by  the  board  of  examiners  for  conscripts, 
who,  in  their  reports,  will  state  distinctly  for  what  service,  or  for  which 
department  of  the  .army,  such  conscripts  are  best  fitted ;  and  comman- 
dants of  conscripts  will  assign  them  in  accordance  with  such  recommen- 
dation, or,  failing  to  do  this,  will  report  for  assignment  through  the 
Bureau  of  Conscription,  to  the  chief  or  head  of  the  department  in  whicb 
they  have  been  recommended  for  service,  the  names  of  such  conscripts. 


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Alt  certificates  of  exemption  for  disability  will  be  signed  by  the  examining 
board,  and  be  approved  by  the  enrolling  officer  of  the  congressional  dis- 
trict: and  when  (he  certificate  s<  ta  forth  that  the  disability  is  decided  and 
permanent,  it  wilFtexempt  the  parly  from  molestation  by  enrolling  officers, 
unless  otherwise"  ordered  from  the  BurSau  of  Conscription, 


From  these  extracts  it  will  be  seen  that  details  for  clerks,  guards, 
agents,  employees  or  laborers  in  this  department  are  restricted  to  two 

d  persons  who  are  within  the  ages  of  eighteen  and  forty-five 
year-,  and  who,  by  the  report  of  a  hoard  of  army  surgeons  shall  be 
reported  as  unable  to  perform  active  service  in  the  field,  but  capable  of 
performing  some  of  the  abdve  mentioned  services,  specifying  which. 

•2d.  From  persons  between  the  ages  of  forty-five  and  fifty  years,  which 
must  be  shown  by  certificate.  Details  of  artisans,  mechanics  or  persona 
of  scientific  skill  may  be  made  as  heretofore. 

These  orders  will  be  strictly  enforced  by  the  War  Department,  and  it 
will  be  useless  for  officers  to  make  application  for  details  save  as  recited 
abovo. 


General  Orders,  No.  28,  March  4,  1864. 

I.  Paragraph  V,  General  Orders,  No.  J3  (1864),  is  thus  amended: 
Officers  of  the  Quartermaster's  Department  will,  upon  the  requisition  of 
company  commanders,  issue  clothing  directly  to  soldiers  and  tak#  their 

individual  receipts  therefor. 

********* 

III.  The  following  Act  of  Congress  is  published  for  the  information 
of  the  army : 

An  Act   to   allow  Commissioned  Officers  of  the  Army  Rations  and  the 

privilege  of  purchasing  Clothing  from  the  quartermaster's  department. 
♦  *****#*** 

SEC.  2.  All  commissioned  officers  of  the  armies  of  the  Confederate 
States  shall  be  allowed  to  purchase  clothing  and  cloth  for  clothing  from 
any  quartermaster  at  the  price  which  it  cost  the  government,  all  expenses 
included:  provided,  that  no  quartermaster  shall  be  allowed  to  sell  to  any 
officer  any  clothing  which  would  be  proper  to  issue  to  privates,  until  all 
privates  entitled  to  receive  the  same  shall  have  been  first  supplied :  pro- 
vided, that  the  officer  offering  to  purchase  shall  give  his  certificate,  on 


honor,  that  the  articles  are  necessary  for  his  own  personal  comfort  and 
use,  and  in  no  case  shall  more  than  one  suit  per  annum  be  allowed  to  be 
eo  purchased  by  an  officer:  provided,  that  no  law  or  army  regulation 
shall  hereafter  be  construed  to  allow  an  officer  to  purchase  or  draw  from 
subsistence  stores  more  than  one  ration  a  day,  or  for  less  price  than  the 
cost  thereof,  including  transportation. 

Sec.  3.  No  officer  under  the  rank  of  brigadier  general  shall  hereafter 
be  entitled  to  forage  or  commutation  for  forage  for  more  than  one  horse, 
except  when  on  service  in  the  Geld. 


Under  section  2,  cloth  unsuited  for  use  for  enlisted  men  may  be  sold  to 
officers  on  the  certificate  ot  the  officer  that  he  has  not  purchased  any 
from  this  department  within  twelve  mouths,  and  that  it  is  for  his  own 
use — not  more  than  four  yards  (double  width)  to  any  on!  officer. 

Under  section  3,  forage  can  be  issued  to  no  officer  below  the  rank  of  bri- 
gadier general  for  more  than  one  horse,  except  when  on  service  in  the  field. 

Forage  issued  in  excess  of  the  above  allowance  will  he  charged  in  this 
office  to  the  officer  issuing,  at  the  market  prices  at  his  ; 

A.   R,  Law  ton,  Q.  M.  Gem. 


General  Orders.  No.  89,  March  5,  1864. 
I.  The  following  Acts  of  Congress  are  published  for  the  information 
of  the  army : 

An  Act  to  confer  additional  Poicers  upon  Courts  Martial  and   Military 

Courts. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  any 
military  court  or  court  martial  convened  within  the  army  of  the  Con- 
federate States,  shall  have  power  to  summon  as  a  witness  before  it  any 
citizen  of  the  state  in  which  said  court  may  at  the  time  hold  its  session; 
find  any  citizen  disobeying  such  summons — upon  information  given 
thereof  by  the  judge  advocate  of  said  military  court  or  court  martial  to 
the  judge  of  the  district  court  of  the  Confederate  States  for  the  district  in 
which  said  citizen  may  reside — shall  be  subject  to  the  same  pen;.' 
for  disobedience  of  an  order  of  said  district  court ;  or,  on  application  of 
the  judge  advocate,  such  citizen  witness  may  by  military  force  be  ar- 
rested and  brought  before  said  military  court  or  court  martial,  by  order 
of  the  commander  of  the  army,  and  may  be  held  in  close  confinement 
until  be  or  she  shall  consent  to  testify. 
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Sec.  2    Wh  pearing  upon  being  summoned,  m 

provided  iii  this  a<  paid  Bneb  ront  for  his  or  hm 

attendance  as  tne  commander  of  the  army  shall  d  cable,  winch 

payment  shall  be  made  by  any  paymaster,  upon  tho  certificate  of  said 
commander,  specifying  the  ambnnt.     [Approved  February  17.  1864.] 

An  Art   authorizing  Chaplain*  in   certain  cases  t<>  draw  Forage  for 
om    Horse. 

The  Congress  pf  th     I  States  of  America  do  enact.  That 

ias  in  the  army  in  a<  I  •  M  shall  be  entitled  to 

draw  forage  for  one  tjorw  :  provided  the  chaplain  has  a  horse  jn  his  use 
[Approved  Januan  22.  1864.] 


•-    So.  30,  March  1,  1864. 

I.  The  following  Act  of  Congress  coueerning  impressments,  and  the  in- 
structions of  the  War  Department  respecting  it.  are  published  for  the  in- 
formation  and  direction  of  all  concerned: 

An  Ad  to  amend  an  Art  to  regulate  Impressments  (approved  March 
twenty i  sixth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-three),  and  to  repeal  an  Act 
amendatory  thereof  (approved  April  twenty-seventh,  eighteen  hundred 

and  sixty-three).  # 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  in 
all  cases  where  property  is  impressed*  for  the,  use.  of  the  army  and  navy, 
or  for  other  public  use,  under  Raid  act,  the  same,  shall  be  paid  for  at  the 
time  of  said  impressment,  unless  an  appeal  shall  he  taken*  from  said  valu- 
ation, as  herein  after  provided,  according  to  the  valuation  agreed  upon 
;  en  the  parties,  or  ascertained  by  loyal  and  disinterested  citizens  of 
the  city,  county  or  parish  in  which  the  impressment  may  be  made,  in  the 
manner  and  according  to  ihe  regulations  provided  in  the  first,  second  ami 
third  sections  of  the  above  recited  act,  or  in  the  eighth  section  thereof, 
..where  it  is  applicable 

SEC.  2.  Whenever  the  officer  making  the  impressment  of  property, 
under  the  act  hereby  amended,  shall  believe  that  the  appraisement  is  fair 
and  just,  he  shall  endorse  Ids  approval  upon  the  appraisement,  and  make 
payment  accordingly;  hut  if  lie  shall  believe  that  it  is  not  fair  and  just, 
then  he  shall  refuse  to  approve,  and  endorse  the  reasons  of  his  refusal  on 
the  certificate,  and  shall  have  the  right  to  appeal  from  the,  decision  of  the 
appraisers,  by  reporting  the  case  to  the  commissioners  appointed  under 
6aid  act  to  which  this  is  an  amendment,  for  their  decision,  whoso  judg- 
ment shall  be  final ;  and  in  the  mean  time  the  property  shall  be  held  and 


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appropriated  by  the  officer  irr.pi  ssing  fcl  who  shall  give  a  receipt 

thm-for  to  the  owner,  who  shall  also  hav<  tin  right  of  appeal  as  herein 
provided. 

Sec.  3.  The  said  commissioners  shall  have  power  to  summon  and 
examine  witnesses  <<>  enable  them  to  hx  the  value  of  property  impressed, 
which  shall  be  a  just  compensation  for  the  property  so  impressed,  at  the 
time  and  place  of  impressment;  and  when  the  commissioners  shall  have 
fixed  the  value  of  property  in  cases  of  appeal,  they  shall  furnish  the 
owner  and  impressing  officer  with  a  statement  of  such  value,  which 
valuation  by  the  commissioners  shall  be  within  three  months  from  the 
time  of  impressment. 

•  Sec.  4.  That  said  commissioners  shall  he  sworn  faithfully  to  discharge 
all  their  duties  under  this  act,  and  the  act  to  which  this  is  an  amendment. 

Sec.  5.  That  the  tenth  section  of  the  act  of  which  this  is  an  amend- 
ment be  stricken  out,  and  the  following  inserted  instead  thereof: 

No  slave  laboring  on  a  farm  or  plantation  exclusively  devoted  to  the 
production  of  grain  or  provisions,  shall  be  taken  for  public  use,  without 
the  consent  of  the  owner,  except  in  case  of  urgent  necessity,  and  upon 
the  order  of  the  I  .  mandiug  the  department  in  which  said  farm 

or  plantation  is  situated. 

Sec.  (5.   That  th  »ry  of  the  al  •  (approved 

April  twenty-seventh,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-three),  and  so  much 
of  the  rirst  section  of  said  act  as  requin  avil  to  be  made  by  the 

owner,  or  his  agent,  that  such  property  was  grown,  raised  or  produced 
by  said  owner,  or  held,  or  has  been  purchased  by  him, not  for  sale  or  spe- 
culation, but  for  his  own  use  or  consumption,  be  and  the  same  is  b<  n  by 
repealed. 

Sfec.  7.  That  no  impressment  shall  be  made  under  this  act,  or  the  act 
to  which  this  is  amendatory,  for  the  use  or  benefit,  of  contractors  with  the 
government. 

Sec.  8.   Nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  construed  to  authorize  the  impres- 
sing officer  to  enter  an  appeal  from  any  decision  of  the  local  appraisers, 
under  the  seventh  section  of  the  act  to  which  this  is  amendatory.     [Ap- 
proved February  16,  1864.] 
• 

II.  Impressments  according  to  this  act,  and  the  act  to  which  this  is  an 
amendment,  may  be  mad<  foi  necessary  supplies  for  the  confederate 
armies  in  the  field,  and  for  their  accumulation  in  magazines  and  at  posts 
and  depots,,  and  to  earn  on  the  various  operations  of  the  Military  Bu> 
reaux  connected  with  the  War  Department,  whenever  the  same  cannot  be 
obtained  by  contract. 


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III.  They  may  be  mad'1  under  orders  from  the  Generals  commanding 
armies,  departments,  corps,  divisions,  and  by  commanders  of  detached 
parties,  when  a  necessity  arises. therefor.  Thes<>  orders  may  he  executed 
by  appropriate  officers  of  the  staff  belonging  to  the  army.  The  chiefs  of 
the  various  bureaux  will  designate  the  officers  and  persons  who  shall  be 
competent  to  make  impressments  under  the  authority  conferred  upon 
them. 

IV.  Before  any  impressment  shall  he  made,  the  impressing  officer  or 
his  agent  will  make  an  offer  to  the  owner,  his  bailee  or  agent,  in  writing, 
for  the  purchase  of  the  property,  describing  the  property  he  wishes  to 
purchase,  the  price  he  is  willing  to  pay,  and  the  mode  of  payment,  and 
stating  that,  upon  a  refusal  to  accept  the,  same,  compensation  will  be 
made  according  to  the  acts  of  congress  for  the  regulation  of  impress- 
ments. This  notice  will  be  considered  as  binding  the  property  until  the 
completion  of  the  negotiation  for  the  sale  and  transfer  of  the  same  to  the 
impressing  officer.  The  property  will  remain  in  the  custody  of  the  owner 
and  at  his  risk  during  the  pending  of  these  proceedings,  unless  a  delivery 

same  be  thereupon  made  to  the.  impressing  officer,  with  his  consent, 
of  a  change  of  possession  under  these  circumstances,  the  Confe- 
derate Starrs  will  be  regarded  as  the  owner,  and  the'property  held  for  it* 
use  and  at  its  risk. 

V.  in  all  cases  in  which  the  offer  of  an  impressing  officer  is  refused, 
he  will' proceed  to  adjust  the  price  according  to  the  first  section  of  the 
act  above  recited;  that  is,  by  the  judgment  of  two  loyal  and  disinterested 
persons  of  (lie  city,  county  or  parish  in  which  tin-  impressment  may  TJP 
made — one  to  be  selected  by  the  owner,  his  bailee  or  agent,  and  oue  by 
the  impressing  officer.  In  the  event  of  their  disagreement,  these  two  will 
select  an  umpire  of  like  qualification.  The  persons  thus  selected  will 
proceed  to  assess  just  compensation  for  the  property  so  impressed,  whe- 
ther the  absolute  ownership  or  the  temporary  use  thereof  he.  required.  If 
the  impressing  officer  believes  that  the  appraisement  is  fair  and  just,  be 
will  endorse  his  approval,  and  pay  for  the  property;  and  the  right  in  the 
object  impressed  will  become  the  property  of  the  Confederate  States. 
But  if  he  does  not.  approve  of  the  appraisement,  he  will  decline  to  ap- 
prove it,  and  endorse  the  reasons  for  his  refusal  on  i lie  certificate]  and 
forthwith  report  the  ease  to  the  commissioners  appointed  under  the  fifth 
section  of  the  act,  to  which  the  act  above  recited  is  an  amendment:  and 
in  the  mean  time  the  property  will  be  taken,  and  a  receipt.  de#eribing  the 
property  and  the  proceedings  for  the  adjustment  of  the  price  and  the  ap- 
peal, given  to  the  owner.     The  impressing  officer  will  immediately  report. 


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the  case  to  the  appraisers,  with  a  statement  of  the  quality  and  condition 

of  the  property,  and  his  opinion  npon  the  subject. 
a  ,  . 

VI.  Jfo  officer  or  agent  will  impress  the  necessary  supplies  which  any 
person  may  have  for  the  consumption  of  himself,  his  family,  employee! 
or  slaves,  or  to  carry  on  his  ordinary  mechanical,  manufacturing  or  agri- 
cultural employments. 

If  any  question  arise  as  to  the  fact  whether  the  supplies  are  necessary, 
or  whether  there  he  a  surplus,  it  will  be  determined  by  appraisers  mutu- 
ally selected  according  to  the  preceding  section ;  and  in  this  case  the  de- 
cision of  the  appraisers  will  be  binding1  on  the  officer,  who  will  not  he 
allowed  an  appeal  therefrom. 

VII.  These  regulations  are  published  as  a  substitute  for  the  regulations 
contained  in  General  Orders,  Nos.  '•'>'  and  161,  series  of  1863. 


I  ral  Orders.  No.  32,  March  It,  1964 

1.  The  Act  of  Congress  relative  to  the  employment  <>t  free  uegroesand 
slaves  in  certain  capacities,  and  the  instructions  ■  >»  the  War  Department 
relativ'  ecution,  an    published  foi  the  information  of  those  con- 

cerned : 

An  Act  to  increase  the  Efficiency  of  the  Army,  by  the  cmithnimcnt  of  Free 
■  Negroes  and  Slaves  in  certain  capacities 

Whereas  the  efficiency  of  the  army  is  greatly  diminished  by  the  with- 
drawal from  the  ranks  of  able-bodied  soldiers  to  acl  a-;  teamsters,  and  in 
various  other  capacities  m  which  free  negroes  and  slaves  might  be  advan- 
tageously employed  :  Therefore, 

'The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact.  That  all 
male  free  negroes  and  other  free  persons  of  cojor,  not  including  those 
who  ate  free  under  the  treaty  of  Paris  of  1*;|'.>,  or  under  the  treaty  of 
Spain  of  1*19.  resident  in  the  Confederate  States,  between  the  ages  of  18 
and  50  years,  shall  be  held  liable  to  perform  such  duties  with  the  army, 
or  in  connection  with  the  military  defences  of  the  country,  in  the  way  of 
Avork  upon  fortifications  or  in  government  works  for  the  production  or 
preparation  of  materials  of  war,  or  in  military  hospitals,  as  the  Secretary 
of  War  or  the  Commanding  General  of  the  Trans-Mississippi  Department 
may  from  time  to  time  prescribe;  and  while  engaged  in  the  performance 
of  such  duties,  shall  reeeiv.  ratfons  and  clothing,  and  compensation  at 
the  rate  of  eleven  dollars  a  month,  under  such  rules  and  regulations  a* 


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the  said  Secretary  may  establish  :  provided,  that  the  Secretary  of  War  or 
the  Commanding  •'<  •  '  issippi  Department,  wj;h  ;hv> 

approval  of  the  President,  may  exempt  from  the  operations  of  this  act 
such  free  negroes  as  the  interests  of  the  country  may  require  should  b© 
exempted,  or  such  as  he  may  think  proper  to  exempt,  on  grounds  of\jUB- 
fcice,  equity  or  necessity. 

That  the  Secretary  of  War  is  hereby  authorized  to  employ  for  duties 
similar  to  those  indicated  in  the  preceding  section  of  this  act,  as  many 
aiftle  negro  .slaves,  not  to  exceed  twenty  thousand,  as  in  hi 
the.  wants  of  the  service  may  require,  furnishing  them,  while  so  em- 
ployed, with  proper  rations  and  clothing,  under  rules  and  regulations  to 
be  established  by  him,  and  paying  to  the  owners  of  said  slaves  such 
wages  as  may.be  agreed  upon  with  said  owners  for  their  use  and  ser- 
vice; and  in  the  event  of  the  loss  of  any  slaves  while  so  employed,  by 
the  act  of  the  enemy,  or  by  escape  to  the  enemy,  or  by  death  inflicted  by 
the  enemy,  or  by  disease  contracted  while  in  any  service  required  of  said 
slaves,  then  the  owners  of  the  same  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  the  full 
of  such  slaves,  to  be  ascertained  by  agreement  or  by  appraisement, 
under  the  law  regulating  impressments,  to  be  paid  under  such  rules  and 
regulations  as  the  Secretary  of  War  may  establish. 

That  when  the  Secretary  of  War  shall  be  unable  to  procure  the  ser- 
vices of  slaves  in  any  military  department  in  sufficient  numbers  for  tbo 
necessities  of  the  department,  upon  the  terms  and  conditions  set  forth  in 
the  preceding  section,  then  he-  is  hereby  authorized  to  impress  the  ser- 
vices of  as  many  male  slaves,  not  to  exceed  twenty  thousand,  as  may  be 
required,  from  time  to  time,  to  discharge  the  duties  indicated  in  the  first 
section  of  this  act,  according  to  the  laws  regulating  the  impressment  of 
slaves  in  other  cases:  provided,  thai  slaves  so  impressed  shall,  while  em- 
ployed, receive  the  same  rations  and  clothing,  in  kind  and  quantity,  as 
slaves  regularly  hired  from  their  owners,  and  in  the  event  of  their  loss, 
shajl  be  paid  for  in  the  same  manner,  and  under  the  same  rules  estab- 
lished by  the  said  impressment  laws:  provided,  that  if  the  owner  have 
hut  one  male  slave  between  the  ages  of  18  and  50,  he  shall  not  be  im- 
pressed against  the  will  ner:  provided  further,  that  free  negroes 
shall  be,  first  impressed,  and  if  there  should  be  a  deficiency,  if  shall  ho 
supplied  by  the  in  according  to  the  foregoing  provi- 
sions: provided  further,  (hat  in  making  the  impressment,  not  more  thafl 
one  of  every  five  male  slaves  between  the  ages  of  18  and  4f>  shall  bo 
taken  from  any  owner,  care  being  taken  to  allow,  in  each  case  a  credit  for 
all  slaves  who  may  have  been  already  impressed  under  this  act,  and  who 
are  still  in  service,  or  have  died,  or  been  lost  while  in  service.     And  all 


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impressments  under  this  act  shall  be  taken  in  equal  ratio  from  all  owners 
in  the  same  locality,  city,  county  or  district. 

Thomas  S.  BocOck,  Speaker  House  R<p.«. 
I?.  M   T.  Hunter,  Prcs't  pro  tern,  of  Senate, 

Approved  February  17,  L864  : 

Jefferson  Davis 

IV.  For  the  execution  of  the  sections  in  the  foregoing  act,  relative  to 
the  employment  and  impressment  of  staves,  the  provisions  of  Orders, 
No.  138,  of  the  24th  October  1863,  will  afford  the  requisite  rules  for  the 
guidance  of  the  military  bureaux  and  commanding  g-encrals,  with  modi 
fications  hereafter  mentioned.  1st.  That  slaves  shall  not  be  inn 
when  the  services  of  free  negroes  can  be  obtained.  2d.  Slaves  under  the 
age  of  18  and  above  the  age  of  50  are  exempt.  3d.  The  hire  for 
impressed  shall  be  according  to  the  rates  fixed  by  the  appraisers  under 
the  act  to  regulate  impressments.  4th.  The  limitation  as  to  the  term  for 
which  slaves  shall  be  impressed  for  service  shall  be  for  twelve  mouths, 
instead  of  the  term  fixed  by  said  orders,  if  the  exigency  shall  require  it. 

V.  All  impressments  for  service  in  the  various  military  bureaus 

this  act,  will  be  by  special  order  upon  application  to  the  War  Depart- 
ment, disclosing  the  efforts  that  h  made  to  provide  other  labor 
specified  in  the  act,  the  necessity  for  the  impressment,  and  the  plan  pro- 
posed to  secure  it. 

VI.  The  General  commanding  the  Trans-Mississippi  Department  will 
superintend  the  execution  of  the  law  for  that  department. 


General  Orders,  No.  34,  March  16,  1864. 

I.  The  following  Act  of  Congress  and  Orders  are  published  for  the 
information  of  the  army: 

An  Act  to  provide  an  Invalid   Corps. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That  all 
officers,  non-commissioned  officers,  musicians,  privates  and  seamen,  who 
have  or  shall  become  disabled  by  wounds  or  other  injuries  received,  or 
disease  contracted  in  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  in  the 
line  of  duty,  shall  be  retired  or  discharged  from  their  respective  positions, 
as  herein  after  provided.  But  the  rank,  pay  and  emoluments  of  such 
officers,  and  the  pay  and  emoluments  of  such  non-commissioned  officers, 


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musicians,  privates  and  seamen  shall  continue  to  the  end  ef  the  Avar,  or 
as  long  as  they  shall  continue  so  retired  or  discharged. 

Sec.  2.  That  all  persona  claiming  the  benefits  of  this  act  shall  present 
themselves  for  examination  to  une  of  the  medical  examining  hoards  now 
established  by  law.  Upon  the  certificate  of  such  board  that  such  per- 
manent disability  exists,  such  persons  shall  be  retired  or  discharged  as 
aforesaid. 

Skc.  7.  This  act  shall  be  in  force  from  its  passage.  [Approved  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1864.] 

IX.  Officers  retired  under  the  Act  of  Congress  above  recited,  are  en- 
titled to  commutation  of  quarters  and  fuel  only  when  assigned  to  duty  (as 
provided  in  section  4th  of  said  act),  at  a  station  without  troops,  where 
public  quarters  cannot  be  furnished  in  kind.  They  will  receive  pay  from 
any  post  quartermaster,  upon  exhibiting  evidence  of  their  retirement  from 
active  service,  and  the  certificate  of  last  payment  required  by  paragraph 
IV,  General  Orders,  No.  28,*  and  paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  120 
(1863).t 

X.  Soldiers  retired  from  the  service,  as  herein  provided,  will  be  fur- 
nished with  descriptive  lists,  which,  in  addition  to  the  usual  history  given, 
will  exhibit  the  fact  that  they  have  been  placed  on  the  retired  list,  and 

iate  the  post  at  which  they  will  be  entitled  to  receive  pay  and  allow- 
ances. They  will  report  to  the  commandant  of  such  post-r-which  will 
be  nearest  their  places  of  residence — and  deliver  to  him  their  descriptive 
lists. 

XT.  Post  commanders  are  required  to  take  possession  of  descriptive 
lists  of  all  soldiers  reporting  to  them,  and,  from  the  data  therein  given,  at 

*  IV.  The  impositions  attempted  to  be  practiced  on  officers  of  the  Quartermaster's 
Department  charged  with  paying- troops,  call  for  the  following  regulation  in  respect 
'to  the  payment  of  officers  absent  from  their  proper  commands,  viz:  regimental 
quartermasters  will  furnish  to  officers  of  their  regiments  about  to  leave  their  com- 
mands on  detached  duty,  certificates  of  last  payment  made  by  them  to  such  officers; 
which  certificates  will  lie  deposited  with  the  pay  officer  making  the  next  payment, 
who  «  ill.  ou  such  further  payment,  give  the  officers  a  like  certificate.  Paymentsto 
-officers  absent  from  their  appropriate  commands,  except  those  placed  on  detached 
duty  by  competent  authority,  and  siciau*  wounded  officers  absent  by  like  autho- 
rity, are  expressly  prohibited,  ™ 

i  I.  Jn  order  10  avoid  all  difficulty  with  respect  to  payment  of  officers  absent  from 
their  commands,  and  who  have  not  received  commissions  or  letters  of  appointment 
it  is  or  I  Ted  that  all  such  officers  shall,  before  leaving  their  companies,  he  furnished 
with  a  transcript  from  the  muster  rolls,  or  a  certificate  in  lieu  thereof,  as  may  bo 
convenient,  setting  out  the  full  name,  rank  and  date  thereof  of  such  officer,  and 
that  he  i<  borne  on  the  muster  roll  as  such.  These  transcripts  or  certificates  will 
ke  signed  bv  «be  commanding  officer  of  the  regiment  and  company,  and  will  bo 
equivalent  with  the  pay  officer  to  the.  commission  or  letter  of  appointment  referred 
to  in  paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  121,  of  18(>3  (post).  This  provision,  how- 
ever, is  not  intended  to  dispense  with  the  requirements  of  General  Orders,  No.  28, 
paragraphs  II  aDd  III,  current  seiies. 


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the  end  of  every  t\vo  months,  to  prepare  muster  rolls,  upon  which  these 
soldiers  will  receive  pay  from  the  post  quartermaster  oj  i  [uarter- 

master.     They  will  append  to  eaeli  roll  a  certificate  that  it  has  been  made 
out  in  accordance  with  statements  presented  ii#  descriptive  lists  of  the- 

Soldiers  on  file  in  his  office. 

XII.  Officers  of  the  Quartermaster's  Department  will  issue  necessary 
clothing  to  retired  soldiers  upon  requisitions  made  by  the  commandants 
of  the  posts  at  which  they  are  stationed,  taking  their  receipts  upon  re- 
ceipt rolls,  Form  No.  53,  Regulations  for  the  Quartermaster's  Depai 

XIII.  Retired  soldiers  will  have  their  rations  commuted  at»$i  25  per 
day,  to  be  paid  by  the  "commissary  at  the  post,  designated,  under  the 
orders  of  the  commanding  officer. 

XIV.  When  the  soldier  shall  be  returned  to  his  command,  his  disabi- 
lity for  field  service  having  been  removed,  the  post  commander  will  note 
upon  his  descriptive  list  the  dates  to  which  payment  'may  have  been 
made  him,  on  account  of  pay  and  rations  commuted,  and  the  articles  of 
clothing  issued,  and  return  it  to  him  to  be  delivered  to  his  company  conn 
maiidei ■;  or,  if  he  belongs  to  the  non-commissioned  sfaff,  to  the  adjutant 
of  his  regiment  or  battalion. 


General  Orders,  No  35,  March  19,  1864       . 

I.  Officers  on  inspection  duty,"  while  traveling  under  the  immediate 
orders  of  the  War  Department,  will  be  allowed  their  personal  expenses 
(less  the  commutation  value  of  oue  ration  per  day),  in  lieu  of  all  allow- 
ances for  fuel,  quarters  and  forage.  Each  account  must  be  certified  bv 
the  officer  receiving  the  payment,  and  will  be  paid  by  auy  quartermaster. 

III.  Paragraph  170,  General  Regulations,  .is  hereby  revoked.  Nor 
will  the  commander  of  a  post  grant  leave  to  an  officer  without  permission 
first  obtained  from  the  General  commanding  the  army  or  department  In 
which  the  post  may  be  established. 

♦Paragraph  XL.VI,  of  Special  Orders,  No.  88,  dated  Adjutant  and  Inspector  Gene 
ral's  Office,  April  15.  1864,  reads  as  follows  : 

XLVf.  Officers  and^tonded  ;:gent.s  of  the  Quartermaster's  Department,  traveling 
under  orders  from  the  Quartermaster  General,  the  Commanding  General  of  an  army 
or  military  department,  or  the  principal  purchasing  quartermaster,  or  the  chief 
quartermaster  there<  f  for  the  collection  oi  the  tax  in  kind,  may  receive,  in  lieu  of 
mileage,  and  %f  all  allowances  for  qua*  ters  ami  fuel,  the  actual  and  necessary  cost 
of  the  journey,  lens  the  commutation  value  of  one  ration  per  day.  Every  account 
must  be  certified  by  the  party  receiving  payment,  and  be  approved  by  the  officer 
under  whoso  Order  the  journey  was  performed. 

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IV.  Commanding  Generals^ and  other  commanding  officers,  art  prohi- 
bited from  detaching  officers  and  ordering  them  to  duty,  <>r  for  assignment 
in  other  commands,  or  beyond  the  limits  of  their  departments  or  com- 
mands, without  previous- authority  from  tins  office.  The  transportation 
allowance  of  an  officer  so  detached  and  ordered  without  previous  authority 
will  be  charged  to  the  officer  giving  the  order. 

VI.  Paragraph  VI.  General  Orders,  No.  13  (current  series),  is  thus  ' 
amended: 

In  marking  payments  to  soldiers  upon  descriptive  lists,  officers  of  the 
Quartermaster's  Department  will  be  careful  to  endorse  thereon  ihc  amounts 

id,  and  the  time  tor  which  they  have  been  paid,- returning  the  same  to 
them  for  delivery  to  their  company  commanders.  Disbursing  officers 
will  file  with  receipts  given  by  soldiers  thus  paid,  a  certificate  in  each 
case  that  the  descriptive  list  was  according  to  prescribed  form,  dated  and 
subscribed  by  the  officer  commanding  the  company;  that  the  station  of 
the  company  was  given,  and  that  no  money  was  paid  the  soldier  except 
that  certified  by  the  officer  as  due  from  the  records  of  the  company. 

VII.  Under  General  Orders,  No.  142  (18G3),  the  Inspector  General  of 
field  transportation  is  charged  with  impressing  and  purchasing  field 
transportation  for  the  army.  His  officers  and  agents  will  not  be  interfered 
with  by  either  officers  or  soldiers  when  engaged  in  discharging  that  duty. 


In. addition  to  the  foregoing,  it  is  deemed  expedient  to  publish  also  tho 
following  extracts  from  General  Orders  issued  in  the  year  1863,  and  to 
request  the  especial  attention  of  all  officers  connected  with  this  depart- 
ment to  the  requirements  embraced  therein. 


General  Orders,  No.  8,  January  20,  1863. 

II.  No  transfer  of  bonded  officers  from  positions  to  which  they  have 
been  originally  assigned  shall  be  recognized  until  affirmed  by  this  de- 
partment.* 

the  Act  of  Congress  of  May  1,  1803  (General  Orders,  No.  70,  section  5),  it  is 
provided,  "that  quartermasters  and  commissaries,  assistant  quartermasters  and  as- 
sistant commissaries,  who  become  permanently  detached  from  divisions,  brigades  or 
regiments  to  which  they  are  originally  appointed  and  assigned  respectively,  whether 
by  resignation  or  otherwise,  shall  cease  to  be  officers  of  the  army,  and  their  names 
shall  be  dropped  from  the  rolls  of  the  army,  unless  reassigned  by  a  special  order  Of 
the  Secretary  of  War." 


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General  Orders,  No.  114,  August  22.  1863. 

I.  Permanent  posts  and  depots  established  by  the  Quartermaster's 
Department,  are  placed  under  (he  special  control  of  the  Quartermaster 
General,. though  subject  to  the  inspection  of  the  commanding  officer  of 
the  department  in  which  they  arc  located. 

II.  Changes  in  the  assignment  of  officers  stationed  at  such  posts  and 
depots,  Avill  be  made  only  through  orders  from  this  office ;  and  no  change 
in  the  location  of  posts  and  depots  Will  be  ordered  by  the  department 
commander,  except  under  circumstances  of  strong  emergency:  in  which 
cases  a  report  of  such  'changes,  with  the  reason  therefor',  will  be  trans- 
mitted to  the  Adjutant  and. Inspector  General's  office. 


Getter  lo.  118,  September  I 

I.  All  officers  of  the  Quartermaster's  Department  serving  at  posts  or 
depots,  will  report  immediately  to  the  Quart*  leneral  their  loca- 
tion, the  character  of  the  duties  discharged  by  them,  and  by  Wh'ose  onlci- 
they  were  so  assigned. 

II.  The  principal  quartermaster  at  each  post  or  depot  will  liken 

port  the  names  of  all  quartermasters  serving  thereat,     lie  will  also  exa- 
mine carefully  into  the  occupation  of  each  officer,  and  will  designate  finch 

as  can  be  spared  for  service  elsewhere. 

III.  The  chief  quartermaster  ofeach  separate  army  will  forward  to  the 
Quartermaster  General,  at  the  earliest  practicable  day,  a  complete  list  of 
all  his  subordinates,  stating  specifically  the  regiment,  brigade,  division  or 
corps  to  which  each  'may  be  attached,  or  when  engaged  on  special  duty, 
the  character  thereof. 

[In  future,  reports  similar  to  those  required  In  tfiis  order  will  be  made 
close  of  each  half-year,  30th  June  and  31st  December.] 


General  Orders,  No.  121,  September  9,  L863 

I.  Paragraph  1064  of  the  Army  Regulations  (107  of  the  Regulations 
of  the  Quartermaster's  Department)  is  amended  to  read  as  follows: 

Officers  are  entitled  to  pay  from  the  date  of  tie-  acceptance  of  their 
appointments,  and  from  the  date  of  promotion:  provided,  that  disbursing 
officers,  who  are  required  to  give  official  bonds,  shall  forward  the  same, 
always  duly  executed,  with  their  letters  of  acceptance,  and  that  their  a<-- 


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cepfances  shall  take  i  fY«  ct  dnly  from  the  date  of  tin  of;the  bonds 

w  ill  an  officer  be  assigned  to 
duty, .and  receive  nay, 'until  he  1ms  received  bis  appointment.     Notitica- 
f  the  receipt  and  approval  of  said  bonds  will  be  forwarded  to  offi- 
through  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  to  which  they  belong". 

II.  All  officers  of  the  Quartermaster  General's  arid  Commissary  Gene- 
ral's Departments  (except  such  as  hold  commissions  in  the  regular  army 
of  the  Confederate  States),  appointed  prior  to  the  commencement  of  the 

ion  of  Con  unary   12th,  1868),  and  whose   bonds, 

prior  to  the  date  of  this  order,  have  not  been  filed  in.  and  apprifved  by 
the  War  Department,  are  Irereby  dropped:  provided1,  that  on  satisfactory 
evidence  that  such  failure  has  not  been  the  result  of  gross  neglect,  tho 
Commanding  General  may  grant  the  officers  concerned  a  short  leave  of 
absence  to  make  and  forward  their  bonds,  aud  shall  report  this  fact  to'tbo 
Quartermaster  General. 

III.  No  application  for  the  revocation  of  the  above  order,  in  any  indi- 
vidual case,  will  be  entertained  by  the. War  Department.  If  a  vacancy 
be  occasioned  in  any  brigade  or  regiment,  or  at  a  post,  application  will 
be  made  for  a  new  appointment,  in  conformity  to  General  Orders,  No.  8, 
J8(>:>;  and  the  appointee,  in  accepting  his  position,  will  be  held  strictly 
to  the  requirements  of  preceding  paragraph  I. 

IV.  Officers  of  the  Quartermaster  General's  Department,  whose  ap- 
pointments bear  date  subsequent  to  the  I2th  day  of  January  1863,  and 
who  have  not  filed  bonds,  duly  executed,  will  be  allowed  a  furlough  for 
such  time,  not  exceeding  sixty  days,  as  may  be  necessary  to  enable  them 
to  execute  their  bonds. 

V.  Commanding  officers  will  be  careful  to  recommend  for  appoint- 
ment as  disbursing  officers,  only  such  persons  as  furnish  reasonable  assu- 
rance of  their  ability  to  execute  the  bonds  required  by  law. 

VI.  All  letters  of  appointment  hereafter  issued  will  be  accompanied 
by  a  notification  to  the  appointee,  that  his  official  bond  must  be  returned 
with  his  acceptance,  and  that  the  latter  will  take  effect  only  from  the  dale 
at  which  said  bond  is  approved. 


Particular  attention  is  directed  to  the  rule  heretofore  adopted  in  regard 
to  the  use  of  the  telegraph;  and  published  in  the  Circular  of  January 
1852*. as  follows: 


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n«J  iii'qtuwic  ^kuplojmont  of  the  telegraph  by  omcers  and  agents  of 
■she. Quartermaster*!*  Department,  foi  fb<^  transmission  of  messages,  &C., 
which  could  be  communicated  by  letter,  has  become  a  serious  abuse,  re- 
quiring fl<rrrjftfti«i  To  prevont  its  recurrence,  the  Quartermaster  General 
is  compelled  to  idopt  the  rule,  that  hereafter  the  cost  of  ail  unnecessary 
•jalegrara*  will  bf>  charged  against  the  officer  by  whom  they  may  be  Bent 


\  Circular  similar  to  the  present  will  be  issued  at  the  end  of  each  quar- 
ter, for  distribution  to  the  officers  of  this  department*  and'all  such  officers 
*re  requested  to  advise  this  office  promptly  of  any  changes  that  may  be 
made  in  their  locations  or  assignments,  in  order  that  copies  of  such  Cir- 
cular sent  to  theoA,  may  receive  the  proper  direction. 

A.  R    LAWTOtf, 

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